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Culinary Diplomacy: Why Governments Are Starting Food Trends

Promoting your country's food is becoming a trendy tactic for nations looking to raise their profile (and tourist revenue)

This 133-foot long wooden steamer, the Rising Sun, is in 6 to 12 feet of water just north of Pyramid Point, where she stranded on October 29, 1917. All 32 people on board were saved.

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In 2015, Lake Michigan Was So Clear Its Shipwrecks Were Visible From the Air

A Coast Guard patrol spotted the wrecks in shallow waters that are only clear after the lake's ice melts and before summer sediment swirls and algae blooms

The moon during a lunar eclipse

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Japan Plans a Trip to the Moon by 2018

The lander will use information from Japan’s moon-orbiting satellite to stick the landing

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Watch A Dangerous Yet Lovely Volcano Erupt in Chile

Calbuco volcano springs to life after more than 40 years of dormancy

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Here’s How Cinnamon is Harvested in Indonesia

Watch as the inner bark from cinnamon trees is cut and stripped down to create the spice

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Meet the First Donut That Went to Space

A pair of Swedish brothers launched a tasty pastry into the stratosphere—and filmed the entire ride

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Levitating Train Breaks Speed Record in Japan

This magnetic levitation bullet train is capable of speeds of 366 miles per hour—and possibly more

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This Man Plans to Spend a Year Living in a Giant Ball on an Iceberg

Adventurer Alex Bellini wants to watch a Greenland iceberg melt while he dwells in a "survival pod"

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New York City Ran a Slave Market

New marker will acknowledge the bustling slave trade that helped build New York

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Tour the Theater Where Lincoln Was Assassinated on Google Street View

150 years later, a new view of Ford’s Theatre

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Here Are the Places Most at Risk of a Volcanic Explosion

New research will help countries prepare

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Mountaineers Are Taking a New Route Up Everest

They’ll forge their path sans sherpas or oxygen tanks

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Here’s Why the Dutch Are So Tall

A new study shows natural selection is alive and well in the Netherlands

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70 Percent of Western Canada’s Glaciers Will Disappear by 2100

And that’s the conservative side of scientists’ ice melt projections

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Could NASA Stop on the Moon on the Way to Mars?

NASA's chief of human exploration thinks we'll need a pit stop en route to the fiery planet

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An Autonomous Car Just Completed a 3,400-Mile Road Trip

Delphi’s robo-car drove itself across 15 states in just nine days

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California’s Drought Is Changing the Way Bay-Area Water Tastes And Smells

The Bay Area’s water is still safe to use, but drought is causing a noxious algae bloom to affect tap water

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Why the ESA’s Astronauts Train Underground

The European Space Agency is applying protocols from the International Space Station in caves

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Houston, We Might Have Some Major Problems Making Babies in Space

From risky pregnancies to birth defects to problems with inbreeding, it just seems like a bad idea

According to new figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau, Houston is among the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the country.

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New Census Data Shows Fastest-Growing Areas

Florida, Texas post big gains in 2013-2014 statistics

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